THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-0992 (LOW 2.9) — A flaw was found in the libxml2 library. This uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability occurs when processing XML catalogs that contain repeated <nextCatalog> elements pointing to the same downstream catalog. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying crafted catalogs
[NVD] CVE-2026-0992 (LOW 2.9) — A flaw was found in the libxml2 library. This uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability occurs when processing XML catalogs that contain repeated <nextCatalog> elements pointing to the same downstream catalog. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying crafted catalogs
CVE-2026-0992 CVSS: 2.9 LOW Published: 2026-01-15T15:15:52.657
A flaw was found in the libxml2 library. This uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability occurs when processing XML catalogs that contain repeated <nextCatalog> elements pointing to the same downstream catalog. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying crafted catalogs, causing the parser to redundantly traverse catalog cha
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- CVE-2026-0992cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0992